Agent Based Software for the Autonomous Control of Formation Flying Spacecraft
Agent Based Software for the Autonomous Control of Formation Flying Spacecraft

Author: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-06-20

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 9781721567591

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Distributed satellite systems is an enabling technology for many future NASA/DoD earth and space science missions, such as MMS, MAXIM, Leonardo, and LISA [1, 2, 3]. While formation flying offers significant science benefits, to reduce the operating costs for these missions it will be essential that these multiple vehicles effectively act as a single spacecraft by performing coordinated observations. Autonomous guidance, navigation, and control as part of a coordinated fleet-autonomy is a key technology that will help accomplish this complex goal. This is no small task, as most current space missions require significant input from the ground for even relatively simple decisions such as thruster burns. Work for the NMP DS1 mission focused on the development of the New Millennium Remote Agent (NMRA) architecture for autonomous spacecraft control systems. NMRA integrates traditional real-time monitoring and control with components for constraint-based planning, robust multi-threaded execution, and model-based diagnosis and reconfiguration. The complexity of using an autonomous approach for space flight software was evident when most of its capabilities were stripped off prior to launch (although more capability was uplinked subsequently, and the resulting demonstration was very successful). How, Jonathan P. and Campbell, Mark and Dennehy, Neil (Technical Monitor) Goddard Space Flight Center MIT-OSP-6891850

Autonomous and Autonomic Systems: With Applications to NASA Intelligent Spacecraft Operations and Exploration Systems
Autonomous and Autonomic Systems: With Applications to NASA Intelligent Spacecraft Operations and Exploration Systems

Author: Walt Truszkowski

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-11-12

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 1846282330

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In the early 1990s, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center started researching and developing autonomous and autonomic ground and spacecraft control systems for future NASA missions. This research started by experimenting with and developing expert systems to automate ground station software and reduce the number of people needed to control a spacecraft. This was followed by research into agent-based technology to develop autonomous ground c- trol and spacecraft. Research into this area has now evolved into using the concepts of autonomic systems to make future space missions self-managing and giving them a high degree of survivability in the harsh environments in which they operate. This book describes much of the results of this research. In addition, it aimstodiscusstheneededsoftwaretomakefutureNASAspacemissionsmore completelyautonomousandautonomic.Thecoreofthesoftwareforthesenew missions has been written for other applications or is being applied gradually in current missions, or is in current development. It is intended that this book should document how NASA missions are becoming more autonomous and autonomic and should point to the way of making future missions highly - tonomous and autonomic. What is not covered is the supporting hardware of these missions or the intricate software that implements orbit and at- tude determination, on-board resource allocation, or planning and scheduling (though we refer to these technologies and give references for the interested reader).

A Distributed Flight Software Design for Satellite Formation Flying Control
A Distributed Flight Software Design for Satellite Formation Flying Control

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 12

ISBN-13:

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Several NASA and DoD missions are envisioned that will utilize distributed. autonomous clusters of spacecraft. The Air Force Research Laboratoiy initiated the TechSat 21 mission to demonsnate the key enabling technologies of formation flying and distributed radar. Princeton Satellite Systems developed the Formation Flying Module (FFM) for TechSat 21 to provide autonomous reconfiguration, formation keeping, and collision avoidance capabilities to the three-satellite cluster. The process of developing flight software for such a distributed system has brought to light significant design challenges. Examples inclitde developing a cluster level fault management plan. designing an autonomous control system which respects the various constraints imposed by the spacecraft design. and defining a sensible ground command interface to the cluster. These challenges are likely to remain important issues for fttture missions. especially as the complexity and size of the cluster grows. This paper presents an overview of the FFM design along with the motivations and challenges associated with the design process.

High-Reliability Autonomous Management Systems for Spacecraft
High-Reliability Autonomous Management Systems for Spacecraft

Author: Jianjun Zhang

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2023-08-25

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0443132828

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High-Reliability Autonomous Management Systems for Spacecraft updates on research on three levels of self-management, including: 1) Autonomous health management of spacecraft that covers how spacecraft can monitor their own state and autonomously detect, isolate and recover from faults; 2) Autonomous mission management of spacecraft where the spacecraft can directly receive the mission, formulate a reasonable plan according to the current state and working environment of the spacecraft, and convert the mission into a specific sequence of instructions; 3) Spacecraft autonomous data management where the spacecraft processes a large amount of raw data and extracts useful information, and autonomously executes or changes flights. The autonomous management of spacecraft uses modern control technologies such as artificial intelligence to establish a remote intelligent body on the spacecraft so that the spacecraft can complete its flight tasks by itself. Its goal is to accurately perceive its own state and external environment without relying on external information injection and control or rely on external control as little as possible. Divides the autonomous management level of spacecraft into two levels, autonomy and execution Covers the implementation of spacecraft autonomous management into three aspects, including autonomous health management of the spacecraft, mission management, and converting the mission into a specific sequence of instructions Discusses how these processes can take a large amount of raw data and extract useful information Covers the autonomous management model of the spacecraft, including compatibility

Distributed Space Missions for Earth System Monitoring
Distributed Space Missions for Earth System Monitoring

Author: Marco D'Errico

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-09-14

Total Pages: 682

ISBN-13: 1461445418

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This title analyzes distributed Earth observation missions from different perspectives. In particular, the issues arising when the payloads are distributed on different satellites are considered from both the theoretical and practical points of view. Moreover, the problems of designing, measuring, and controlling relative trajectories are thoroughly presented in relation to theory and applicable technologies. Then, the technological challenges to design satellites able to support such missions are tackled. An ample and detailed description of missions and studies complements the book subject.

Design of the Remote Agent Experiment for Spacecraft Autonomy
Design of the Remote Agent Experiment for Spacecraft Autonomy

Author: Douglas Edward Bernard

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13:

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Abstract: "This paper describes the Remote Agent flight experiment for spacecraft commanding and control. In the Remote Agent approach, the operational rules and constraints are encoded in the flight software. The software may be considered to be an autonomous 'remote agent' of the spacecraft operators in the sense that the operators rely on the agent to achieve particular goals. The experiment will be executed during the flight of NASA's Deep Space One technology validation mission. During the experiment, the spacecraft will not be given the usual detailed sequence of commands to execute. Instead, the spacecraft will be given a list of goals to achieve during the experiment. In flight, the Remote Agent flight software will generate a plan to accomplish the goals and then execute the plan in a robust manner while keeping track of how well the plan is being accomplished. During plan execution, the Remote Agent stays on the lookout for any hardware faults that might require recovery actions or replanning. In addition to describing the design of the remote agent, this paper discusses technology-insertion challenges and the approach used in the Remote Agent approach to address these challenges. The experiment integrates several spacecraft autonomy technologies developed at NASA Ames and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory: on-board planning, a robust multi-threaded executive, and model-based failure diagnosis and recovery."

Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies VIII
Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies VIII

Author: Andrea Omicini

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-04-08

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 3642207154

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies, DALT 2010, held in Toronto, Canada, on May 10, 2010, as a satellite workshop of the 9th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2010. The 7 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited lectures were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement from 24 initial submissions. DALT aims to make formal methods and declarative technologies and approaches available to and understood by a broader segment of the multi-agent research community; the papers are organized in topical sections on BDI rational agents, communication, coordination and negotiation, as well as social aspects and control systems.

Multi-Robot Systems: From Swarms to Intelligent Automata
Multi-Robot Systems: From Swarms to Intelligent Automata

Author: Alan C. Schultz

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-11-11

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 9401723761

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In March 2002, the Naval Research Laboratory brought together leading researchers and government sponsors for a three-day workshop in Washington, D.C. on Multi-Robot Systems. The workshop began with presentations by various government program managers describing application areas and programs with an interest in multi robot systems. Government representatives were on hand from the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force, the Army Research Lab, the National Aeronau tics and Space Administration, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Top researchers then presented their current activities in the areas of multi robot systems and human-robot interaction. The first two days of the workshop of1ocalizatio~. concentrated on multi-robot control issues, including the topics mapping, and navigation; distributed surveillance; manipulation; coordination and formations; and sensors and hardware. The third day was focused on hu man interactions with multi-robot teams. All presentations were given in a single-track workshop format. This proceedings documents the work presented by these researchers at the workshop. The invited presentations were followed by panel discussions, in which all participants interacted to highlight the challenges of this field and to develop possible solutions. In addition to the invited research talks, students were given an opportunity to present their work at poster sessions.

Formation Control
Formation Control

Author: Hyo-Sung Ahn

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-03-29

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 3030151875

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This monograph introduces recent developments in formation control of distributed-agent systems. Eschewing the traditional concern with the dynamic characteristics of individual agents, the book proposes a treatment that studies the formation control problem in terms of interactions among agents including factors such as sensing topology, communication and actuation topologies, and computations. Keeping pace with recent technological advancements in control, communications, sensing and computation that have begun to bring the applications of distributed-systems theory out of the industrial sphere and into that of day-to-day life, this monograph provides distributed control algorithms for a group of agents that may behave together. Unlike traditional control laws that usually require measurements with respect to a global coordinate frame and communications between a centralized operation center and agents, this book provides control laws that require only relative measurements and communications between agents without interaction with a centralized operator. Since the control algorithms presented in this book do not require any global sensing and any information exchanges with a centralized operation center, they can be realized in a fully distributed way, which significantly reduces the operation and implementation costs of a group of agents. Formation Control will give both students and researchers interested in pursuing this field a good grounding on which to base their work.

Handbook of Research on Design, Control, and Modeling of Swarm Robotics
Handbook of Research on Design, Control, and Modeling of Swarm Robotics

Author: Tan, Ying

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2015-12-09

Total Pages: 889

ISBN-13: 1466695730

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Studies on robotics applications have grown substantially in recent years, with swarm robotics being a relatively new area of research. Inspired by studies in swarm intelligence and robotics, swarm robotics facilitates interactions between robots as well as their interactions with the environment. The Handbook of Research on Design, Control, and Modeling of Swarm Robotics is a collection of the most important research achievements in swarm robotics thus far, covering the growing areas of design, control, and modeling of swarm robotics. This handbook serves as an essential resource for researchers, engineers, graduates, and senior undergraduates with interests in swarm robotics and its applications.